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1) Code to zero
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English
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A man wakes up shaking with fear on the cold rest room floor in Union Station, Washington, D.C. He doesn't know how he got there, or even his own name. His ragged, dirty clothes imply that he's a bum, probably getting over a bender. But something seems terribly wrong--and shadowy figures follow his every move. Searching for answers, the man uncovers a shocking truth that threatens to derail America's space program, even while Cape Canaveral counts...
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DAW Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
7) Heaven's war
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Series
Heaven's shadow trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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In this sequel to "Heaven's Shadow," it has been discovered that the asteroid Keanu is not in fact a space object, but a massive interstellar ship built by aliens. Now, humanity has begun to colonize the ship allenge for the refugee population is survival.
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Series
Darkship novels volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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"Athena Hear Sinistra has survived reformatories, madhouses and ballet schools. But nothing prepared her for waking up in her father's space cruiser with a stranger looming over her bed." "Facing mutiny armed only with a torn nightgown and her wits, Athena has no choice but to escape into space - and to confront singlehanded the darkships that have terrorized Earth's power collectors for centuries. If she survives, space will never be the same again."--BOOK...
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Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision to send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan to form a club of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles to overcome setbacks and sabotage and get a rocket full of scientists,...
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Liaden universe novels volume 18
Publisher
Baen Books
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English
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Star-trading Clan Korval--known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon Family and to the locals simply as "the Dragon"--has been convicted of crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the "crimes" consisted of saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the Council, the Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world: banishment,...
11) Heaven's shadow
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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"An object one hundred miles across, originating from Octans constellation, on a trajectory for our sun. Now its journey is almost over. And humanity's journey is about to begin. As the Near-Earth Object--dubbed "Keanu"--approaches, two manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first and land on the frozen, desolate surface: NASA's Destiny, originally designed for flights to the Moon and Mars, and the untested...
12) The long Utopia
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Long Earth volume 4
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English
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Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown and, disguised as a human, attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history.
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Series
Maximum Ride manga volume 4
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Despite their initial hesitation, living with Anne has softened the Flock, so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave. With Thanksgiving so near, though, all of them want to stay, at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances, and while the Flock's new school seems normal and safe, secrets are hidden beneath its prestigious facade.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of interplanetary proportions. Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world―including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers―are competing...
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